I appreciate your question.
I would recommend that you discuss this question with your surgeon as every surgeon has their own respective post op protocol for his/her patients. Your surgeon is your best resource as he/she is most familiar with your medical history and how you will be healing following surgery.
The best way to assess and give true advice would be an in-person exam.
Please see a board-certified plastic surgeon that specializes in aesthetic and restorative plastic surgery.
Best of luck!
Dr. Schwartz
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
#RealSelf100Surgeon

Recovering after surgery

September 10th, 2016

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I'm going to make an assumption that you're planning on traveling to a developing nation to get discount cosmetic surgery.
Perhaps Dominican Republic?
I say so because the great majority of plastic surgeons in the United States do not use recovery homes and discuss postoperative care in great detail during the consultation.
Recovering yourself in a cheap hotel in a Third World country after many hours of general anesthesia and a major surgical procedure does not sound like a very smart idea to me.
I personally would take advantage of living in a country that has the highest medical standards in the world.
Too many Americans have gone to the DR and been shipped back in body bags.
Most countries have talented and not so talented doctors.
The United States has the most rigorous training and certification programs in the world.
This article summarizes some of my concerns regarding medical tourism
Dominican authorities have shut down a plastic surgery clinic as theyinvestigate the death of a U.S. woman who traveled to the Caribbeancountry to undergo a liposuction procedure, officials said Sunday.
The prosecutor's office in Santo Domingo said the 23-year-old womantraveled to the Dominican Republic two days before her April 23procedure but did not disclose where she was from in the U.S.
The clinic is run by Dr. Edgar Contreras, who has been the subject ofthree other probes by Dominican investigators over the years. He couldnot be immediately contacted for comment.
The U.S. citizen is the fourth woman and the second American who hasdied so far this year at Dominican plastic surgery clinics. Theyinclude a 35-year-old from Hawaii identified who authorities say diedafter a liposuction procedure and a 24-year-old woman who died from anembolism in February after undergoing surgery to have implants removedfrom her buttocks.
Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreported that at least 19 women in five states had developed seriousmycobacterial wound infections following cosmetic procedures in theDominican Republic such as liposuction, tummy tucks and breastimplants.
The Caribbean country, like nations such as Thailand, Mexico and CostaRica, has promoted itself as a destination for medical tourism,so-called because people will often tack on a few days at a resortbefore or after undergoing surgery.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom M.D.

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